We Could Be Hero's - steven stucki

"We Could Be Heroes" was exceptionally interesting, as far as my perception considered it, because it dealt mostly with images, icons, and figures that I could recognize. Of course, the exhibit had a handful of pieces I wanted to write about, but I chose to share my observations of "Snowy" by Dina Goldstein. I liked it primarily because it seemed to capture the theme of the exhibit better than any other piece I saw, "We Could Be Heroes". A Father dressed as Prince Charming is sitting on a chair, beer in hand, watching a television show depicting "heroic activities", while his wife, dressed as Snow White, holds two babies with another tugging at her dress, and stares at the camera. There is, as well, another baby in the background crawling through clutter on the floor. I thought the piece depicted quite well many of the average american families today. In modest circumstances, the wife is expected to attend to almost all the needs while the father sits, tired, in front of the TV watching people accomplish things that he wish he could do, but for whatever reason didn't. The mother in this piece doesn't look upset, and the father, I imagine, is inherently good and well-meaning but both are exhausted from white I believe is a disconnect in parenting. This disconnect happens today so prevalently as the roles of men and women are ever-deeply segregated, rather than the mutual confidence and commitment of parents being fostered. By example, the tradition will be passed on to the children almost certainly.